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Suspected Radioactive Substance - Road Closed

» Updated: 29 August 2024, 01:52

» Published: 26 August 2024

Suspected Radioactive Substance - Road Closed
Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT

A suspected hazardous substance was found in Norrköping in the morning.

According to the rescue service, it was about several bottles labeled as "thorium", a radioactive element, which had been left at a recycling center, as Norrköpings Tidningar first reported.

The staff was evacuated and parts of a road were blocked off while the rescue service handled the bottles. By 1 pm, it was established that they were harmless.

You're playing it safe. I've read that it's been used in X-rays and old fluorescent lamps. It's some kind of gray powder, as I understand it, says Martin Eriksson at the Rescue Service Östra Götaland to TT.

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